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business. There would seem to bd no reason, however, for it to use the mails under subsidy of all the taxpayers, when regular business and personal correspondence pays Sts way. at 3 cents an ounce. • There have been claims of great operating economies made in the postal service in the last several years. Careful analysis shows, however, that the bulk of the savings have been bookkeeping trans- , actions. The air mail subsidy to the air lines, for example, no longer-shows up on the books Of the. Post Office. Department. It has. been transferred to the Civil Aeronautics Administration ledgers, «e but the taxpayer still pays it. Similarly, the great volume of mail sent out by the Federal agencies without stamps formerly was carried as a loss item on the Post Office Department records. Now, each Federal agency is required to set up a postage item in its budget and pay this amount to the Post Office Department. Obviously, this arrangement does not mean an actual saving to the taxpayer His taxes continue to pay the postage of various agencies.
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